Three lighthouse keepers and their families are the only residents on remote and windswept Maatsuyker Island, off the south-west coast of Tasmania.

In postwar Australia, the milling of our nation’s prized hardwood timbers was a rapidly growing industry.

One of the most unusual political glass cinema slides in the collection is this vibrant work used by the Labor Party for the 1940 federal election.

Mark Foy's fashion parades from the 1940s and '50s, featuring designers Pierre Balmain and Schiaparelli, captured in gorgeous colour footage.

An excerpt of a Mark Foy's bridal fashion parade circa 1947 from Fashion Parades at Mark Foy’s (1947–56), Film Australia Collection, NFSA.

Take your front row seat for this collection which illuminates postwar Australia through glorious vintage fashion.

A look at Betty Bryant, once Australia’s most famed film ingénue, who features in the exhibition Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits, now open on the Gold Coast.

Colourised portrait of Betty Bryant in scrapbook

Hand tinted wedding photo of Betty Bryant with Maurice Silverstein.

Betty Bryant wearing a shawl next to a crucifix in a scene from Forty Thousand Horsemen.